Hopkins, Mark. Evidences of Christianity : Lectures before the Lowell Institute, Revised as a Text Book; With a supplementary chapter, considering some attacks of the Critical School, the corroborative evidence of recently discovered Manuscripts, etc., and the testimony of Jesus on his trial. Boston: T. R. Marvin & Son, 1893. Twenty-first Edition. [11565]
Brown publisher's cloth, gilt spine titles, joints good, light soil, 9 x 6 inches, tight. The free end papers are brittle; the text pages are not. 371 clean pp. Good. Hardcover.
Mark Hopkins (1802-1887), b. Stockbridge, MA; d. Williamstown, MA. He graduated at Williams College (1824), was tutor there for two years while studying medicine, and briefly opened a practice in New York City before being appointed to the chair of moral philosophy and rhetoric in his alma mater.
He was licensed to preach in 1832 and in 1836 he succeeded Dr. Edward D. Griffin as president of the college, which post he held until 1872, when he resigned, though retaining the chair of moral and intellectual philosophy, which was established for him in 1836, and that of Christian theology, which he assumed in 1858. The pastorate of the college church, on which he entered in 1836, he retained till 1883. He became president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1857.
“President Hopkins had a large influence for good, and was much beloved by his pupils, many of whom became eminent men, among them James A. Garfield. He was one of the most acute students of moral science that this country has produced since Jonathan Edwards.” - Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1888.
